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Vanderbilt graduates along with their family and friends will gather for the annual Senior Day address - this year by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin - indoors in Memorial Gymnasium. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development celebrated the 30th anniversary of its merger with the university by awarding six of its faculty with new endowed chairs. The chairs were announced at the Peabody spring faculty meeting May 5. Read More

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will address graduating seniors and their families during Vanderbilt University's Senior Class Day Thursday, May 7, at 10 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. The event, which starts with a ceremonial walk through the gates of the university at 9:30 a.m., is held the day before the university's commencement exercises. Read More

On Friday, May 8, the academic careers of several thousand Vanderbilt University students will culminate in Commencement. The university will grant about 3,400 degrees this year: 1,580 to undergraduates and 1,820 to graduate and professional students. About 2,700 graduates are expected to attend the ceremony. While each student has a unique and personal history, some of them are truly extraordinary. Read More

Vanderbilt University announced today that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Senior Research Associate Guirong Wang, titled "Targeting TRP Channel Heat Receptors to Disrupt Anopheles gambiae Host Seeking." Read More

From Saturday, May 2, through Saturday, May 9, the day after Commencement, students will have numerous opportunities to donate and recycle items they don't want to keep. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will give the traditional address to graduates during the Commencement ceremony beginning 9 a.m. Friday, May 8. Read More

Results from the latest AmericasBarometer Survey showing what the impact of worldwide economic decline might mean for democratic consolidation in Latin America will be presented on May 8 at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. The presentation by Vanderbilt University political scientists Mitchell Seligson and Elizabeth Zechmeister is titled "Economic Shocks and Democratic Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the AmericasBarometer Survey." Read More

Vanderbilt Medical Center and Student Health Services are working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and the Tennessee Department of Health to continue to monitor the ongoing H1N1 virus (swine flu) situation. Read More

Vanderbilt University Peabody College's Stephen N. Elliott will receive the Senior Scientist Award from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association at the organization's convention Aug. 6-9 in Toronto. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineers will play a key role in a new federal effort to significantly improve our understanding of how gases and liquids interact with solid surfaces – basic studies that have potential applications ranging from better batteries to more efficient methods for converting solar and electrical energy into fuel, improved fuel cells and enhancing the corrosion resistance of materials. Read More

Peabody College doctoral students Paul Morphy and Peter Beddow were named the first winners of the Bonsal Education Research Entrepreneurship Award (BEREA) April 22. Read More

Vanderbilt University senior Michael Poku has been named to the honorable mention team in USA Today's 20th annual All-USA College Academic Team competition. Read More

Victoria Risko, professor of education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, was recently elected vice president of the International Reading Association. She will serve as vice president 2009-2010, president elect 2010-2011 and president 2011-2012. Read More

An Environmental Commitment Statement has been adopted by Vanderbilt, and the university has completed its first greenhouse gas inventory. Read More

Vanderbilt University's new Peabody Research Institute and the Tennessee Department of Education today announced a partnership to conduct the first statewide evaluation of the effectiveness of Tennessee's Voluntary Pre-K Program. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development is the best graduate school of its kind in the nation, according to rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. Read More

A new national survey of high school writing instruction finds it lacking, with 50 percent of teachers reporting they are not prepared to teach students how to write well and rarely assign complex writing tasks. Read More

Vanderbilt University seniors Kathryn Moreadith and Rob Whiting will spend a year traveling the world after graduation this May as the recipients of the university's Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship. Read More

Current issues surrounding the national HIV/AIDS epidemic and its impact on the Nashville community will be explored at an April 25 conference at the Edgehill United Methodist Church. Read More